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Description
The OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column swath orbital product provides formaldehyde measurements from the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Nadir-Mapper (NM) instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The total column HCHO amount is derived from radiances at wavelengths between 328.5 and 356.5 nm.
Each granule contains data from the daylight portion of each orbit measured for a full day. Spatial coverage is global (-90 to 90 degrees latitude), and there are about 14.5 orbits per day. Each has typically 400 swaths. The swath width of the NM is about 2800 km with 36 scenes, or pixels, with a footprint size of 50 km x 50 km at nadir. The files are written in the new netCDF version 4 format.
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDI
Concept ID
C2477579430-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
62561
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Formaldehyde
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Nowlan, C. (2022). OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column swath orbital V1 [Dataset]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/IIM1GHT07QA8 Date Accessed: 2026-10-25
@misc{nowlan_2022,
title={OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column swath orbital V1},
url={https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/OMPS_NPP_NMHCHO_L2_1/summary},
DOI={10.5067/IIM1GHT07QA8},
publisher={NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center},
author={Nowlan, Caroline},
year={2022},
}
Nowlan, C. (2022). OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column swath orbital V1 [Dataset]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/IIM1GHT07QA8 Date Accessed: 2026-10-25
Nowlan, Caroline. “OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column Swath Orbital V1.” NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5067/IIM1GHT07QA8. Date Accessed: 2026-10-25
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Liao, Jin, Wolfe, Glenn M., Kotsakis, Alexander E., Nicely, Julie M., St. Clair, Jason M., Hanisco, Thomas F., Gonzalez Abad, Gonzalo, Nowlan, Caroline R., Ayazpour, Zolal, De Smedt, Isabelle, Apel, Eric C., Hornbrook, Rebecca S.
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